Salone del Mobile 2025 Events

Rethinking Collectible Design

November 16 ^th 2025 13:00 - 14:00 (CEST)

The landscape of collectible design is undergoing a profound transformation. What was once a niche, Euro-centric market is now expanding across geographies and reaching new audiences, opening unexpected perspectives on value, markets, and cultural relevance.

This talk brings together leading voices from the Chinese design community to explore how new contexts are reshaping the field, in dialogue with Salone del Mobile.Milano, the world’s leading international design event, which is actively experimenting with new models that directly involve designers, galleries, buyers, and institutions on a global scale.

From experimental one-of-a-kind pieces to production models rooted in local craft, Rethinking Collectible Design reflects on how design can act as both a cultural agent and an economic force, shaping a more interconnected and plural design ecosystem.

Moderator:
Annalisa Rosso, Editorial Director and Cultural Events Advisor at Salone del Mobile.Milano

Speakers:
Pak Man Lee, CEO of Nuovo Collection, Creative Director of NUOVO, Founding Patron of M+ Museum, Member of Swiss Institute of NY

Licheng Ling, Designer & Curator, Founder of Homeism & Licheng Ling Projects

Ning Zhang, designer, co-founder of Cometabolism Studio

Duyi Han, artist and designer

WHEN: 16 November at 1.00pm - 2.00pm
WHERE: Dome Hall - West Bund Art & Design, Shanghai China

Pak Man Lee

CEO of Nuovo Collection Creative Director of NUOVO, Founding Patron of M+ Museum, Member of Swiss Institute of NY.

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Licheng Ling

Licheng Ling, born and raised in Shanghai in 1986 but living in New York City for over a decade. Ling got her fashion degree at Parsons in 2012, she founded luxury loungewear brand Homeism in

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Cometabolism Studio

Cometabolism Studio is a duo consisting of designer Zhang Ning and artist Yang Yafei.Zhang Ning graduated from the designer maker program at Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London.Yang Yafei graduated from the Department of Oil Painting of Sichuan Fine Arts Institute.

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Duyi Han

The practice of Duyi Han (1994, China) synthesizes design, art and architecture into emotionally charged, culturally intelligent experiences. His work draws from visual strategies of fashion, the experimental logic of pharmaceutical science, and the speculative potential of cultural systems. He integrates Asian philosophies, especially Taoist ideas of impermanence, with a research-based approach that engages design as “neuroaesthetic prescription”—remixing and transforming diverse cultural references to evoke feeling, memory, and altered states of perception.

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Annalisa Rosso

Contemporary design specialist. She is currently Editorial Director and Cultural Events Advisor at Salone del Mobile.Milano, and Director of The Euroluce International Lighting Forum. Among the projects she conceived and developed for Salone del Mobile are the kinetic monumental “Library of Light” by Es Devlin at Pinacoteca di Brera (2025), "A Thinking Room" by David Lynch in Fiera Milano (2024), and the performative installation “The Orbit's Orbit” by Matilde Cassani in Shanghai (2024), in collaboration with West Bund Art & Design Fair.

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